Mukesh Ambani has successfully got Shah Rukh Khan to shift loyalties! I wonder, who are these 'Investers in Cricket"? I wonder, what does Ness Wadia have to do with Chandigarh? I'd expect these Indian players in the teams:

Mukesh Ambani has successfully got Shah Rukh Khan to shift loyalties! I wonder, who are these 'Investers in Cricket"? I wonder, what does Ness Wadia have to do with Chandigarh? I'd expect these Indian players in the teams:

I'm surprised at the choice of teams. Hyderabad only has one regular and one prospect, yet they have a team here. Nobody from anywhere in Rajasthan is likely to play for India now. Baroda, in comparison, have got more than a few folks ready for India (and also some other areas around), but don't have their own team! Uttar Pradesh has as many as five national prospects, and a newcomer leads the wickets tally in Ranji, but there's no team from UP! Strange.

Is anyone, other than boofheads who watch meaningless rubbish like Big Brother etc, seriously going to watch this tripe? Fair dinkum, it's the absolute definition of guff and soulessness. How utterly vacuous will it be!

I think I might support the generic Jaipur team/franchise/cobbled together entity. lol

I'm surprised at the choice of teams. Hyderabad only has one regular and one prospect, yet they have a team here. Nobody from anywhere in Rajasthan is likely to play for India now. Baroda, in comparison, have got more than a few folks ready for India (and also some other areas around), but don't have their own team! Uttar Pradesh has as many as five national prospects, and a newcomer leads the wickets tally in Ranji, but there's no team from UP! Strange.

Lalith Modi is the prez of Rajasthan cricket association and IPL is his brainchild. Easily explains Jaipur (which is the oddest choice) .

For Hyderabad (or UP, or Baroda), dont know the angle, but the Indian cricket team is the wrong place to look for explanations, I think. The size of the ad market, and especially who their BCCI daddy is, are possibly more important.